According to the airline's statement, its aircraft, travelling from Riyadh to Peshawar on flight SV792, encountered smoke coming from one of the tyres upon landing at Peshawar International Airport in Pakistan.
The Houthis, who hold Yemen’s capital and have fought a bloody, yearslong war with a Saudi-led military coalition that includes the UAE, claimed the assault.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, accompanying Trump in the Oval office, said the central bank was Tehran's last source of funds.
The explosions set off fires that took several hours to douse. The strikes, said to have involved at least 20 drones and several cruise missiles, forced Saudi Arabia to shut down half of its oil production capacity, or 5.7 million barrels per day of crude - 5 per cent of the world's global daily oil production.
The Saturday attack was the latest in a series of airstrikes against the civilians since the coalition intervened in the Yemeni conflict in 2015.
Sanaa: Saudi-led airstrikes struck a headquarters for police commandos in Yemen's capital today, killing at least 45 people gathered there to prepare to fight against forces loyal to the country's exiled president, Shiite rebels said.Hundreds
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